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phixer00

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I am looking for plans to build a direction tracking system good up to 1 mile. I am using this to track pum:kins that will be shot out of air cannons and the can go over 1 mile :eek:
 
Whoa...! A mile? That must be some air-cannon. Who's the target? Do you need to track this thing live in flight (NASA), or find it's impact after the fact? You know the transmitter on/in the pumkin would need to be very solid to survive the launch (search for something in the model rocket telemetry/recovery department), and likely to be destroyed on impact unless its over water.

Remember seeing some kind of anual competition like this, except it wasn't that long range, maybe couple of yards.

Oh, no offense... But from previous threads and the general paranoia... Your not a terrorist are you? And this isn't going to be pointed toward Canada, right?
 
Track the pumpkin to find it after it's landed? Or while it's in the air? To track it when it's landed, get a really sturdy (but light) transmiter and follow it using a portable (2-3 feet large) Yagi antenna boom with earphones. You move in the direction where the signal gets louder- exactly like what they use to track bears where they go around with headphones and that funny metal antenna boom type thing.
 
HarveyH42 said:
And this isn't going to be pointed toward Canada, right?
No problem. The bears in Canada will just eat the pumpkins instead of eating the Americans who come over.:D
 
This is to find the pumkin after they land (or go splat). The contest is for the Pumkin Chukin in Delaware it is a pretty big event around here.
**broken link removed**
 
audioguru said:
No problem. The bears in Canada will just eat the pumpkins instead of eating the Americans who come over.:D

Does Canada have a illegal alien problem with Americans, like we have with mexicans? Never really thought about it like that...

Wouldn't getting hit by a 10-20 lb pumpkin, with enough velocity to travel a mile, hurt some? Should put some flashing lights on for night launches, UFOs...
 
HarveyH42 said:
Does Canada have a illegal alien problem with Americans, like we have with mexicans?
We have (had?) Americans coming to Canada to escape mandatory military duty in the USA.
WE get boatloads of Chinese who are dying and dead on the boats that come over.
We also get a lot of rich American movie stars visiting and spending their big bucks here.
 
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